Lunchtime Revolution One Day In Spring, a play of 24 short scenes, brings the Òran Mór, Glasgow’s series of plays by young, Arab writers to a close. Mark Brown talked to the show’s director, David Greig, about staging the Revolution The last time I interviewed dramatist David Greig for this newspaper, ahead of the… [Read more…]
May 14, 2012
Theatre Imaginate Festival Various venues, Edinburgh Ends tomorrow Reviewed by Mark Brown The Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, which showcases theatre for children and young people from around the world, is a brilliantly curated gem of the Scottish theatre scene. I never cease to be impressed by the quality and diversity of… [Read more…]
May 7, 2012
Opera Tosca Theatre Royal, Glasgow Various dates until Saturday, then touring until June 9 Review by Mark Brown As Scottish Opera approaches its 50th anniversary next month, it revives one of its best known productions, Anthony Besch’s 1980 staging of Puccini’s Tosca. In this, its seventh revival, directed by Jonathan Cocker, it has lost none… [Read more…]
May 1, 2012
King Lear Citizens, Glasgow Until May 12 The Lieutenant of Inishmore Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Until May 12 Reviews by Mark Brown It is a sign of new Citizens Theatre director Dominic Hill’s ambition that he has secured the services of David Hayman (who made his name at the Gorbals playhouse more almost four decades ago)… [Read more…]
April 28, 2012
King Lear, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, review King Lear at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, will go down in theatrical legend for David Hayman’s performance. The coming together of a great Shakespeare character and an equally great actor is a rare and memorable event. From Laurence Olivier’s Henry V to Mark Rylance’s Hamlet, such performances are the theatre’s… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012
A statement from Mark Brown re. the David Hayman interview feature published in the Big Issue magazine on April 23, 2012: The article published under my name in the Big Issue contained material which was added at an editorial level, without my consent. Small editorial changes to copy are, of course, part of the day-to-day business… [Read more…]
April 25, 2012
Citizen Hayman What makes Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre so important, and why is David Hayman returning there to play King Lear? By Mark Brown The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow (or the Citz, as it is affectionately known) is widely considered to be one of the greatest repertory theatre companies, not only in Scotland, but throughout the UK.… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
Humanity at its Furthest Reaches Mark Brown asks Zinnie Harris why her play Further Than The Furthest Thing, which is being revived by Dundee Rep, is one of the most acclaimed Scottish plays of modern times “I had no idea, when I was writing the play, that it would be so successful”, says Zinnie… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
Tennessee Williams’s great play A Streetcar Named Desire is, like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, beautifully suited to the requirements of ballet (indeed, there have been at least two dance versions of Streetcar prior to this new production by Scottish Ballet). Like Romeo and Juliet, Williams’s play – in which fallen southern belle Blanche DuBois finds herself in a small… [Read more…]
April 11, 2012
For Once Traverse, Edinburgh Until April 14 Review by Mark Brown There was a discernible frisson of anticipation at Wednesday night’s opening of Tim Price’s For Once at the Traverse. Not only was it the Scottish premiere of a critically acclaimed debut play, but it was also the Edinburgh audience’s first chance to… [Read more…]
May 21, 2012
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